{"id":2327,"date":"2008-09-19T18:10:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T01:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2008-09-19T18:16:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T01:16:59","slug":"college-aid-for-illegals-in-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/19\/college-aid-for-illegals-in-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"College aid for illegals in jeopardy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the September 16th SF Chronicle, Charlotte and I read with horror&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The headline in the paper paper was &#8220;College aid for illegals in jeopardy&#8221;. Online, it&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/09\/16\/BANQ12UI6C.DTL&amp;type=printable\">Undocumented students&#8217; college aid in jeopardy<\/a>&#8220;. Apparently, the e-paper world likes &#8220;undocumented&#8221; better than &#8220;illegal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A state appellate court has put a financial cloud over the future of tens of thousands of undocumented California college students, saying a state law that grants them the same heavily subsidized tuition rate that is given to resident students is in conflict with federal law.<\/p>\n<p>In a ruling reached Monday, the state Court of Appeal reversed a lower court&#8217;s decision that there were no substantial legal issues and sent the case back to the Yolo County Superior Court for trial.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has a huge impact,&#8221; said Kris Kobach, an attorney for the plaintiffs and a law professor at the University Missouri at Kansas City. &#8220;This is going to bring a halt to the law that has been giving in-state tuition to illegal immigrants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said it is a big win for California taxpayers who have been subsidizing education for undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>The suit was filed in 2005 by out-of-state students attending California colleges. They challenged the state&#8217;s practice of allowing illegal immigrants to pay significantly lower tuition than they pay at the University of California, the California State University and the California Community Colleges. \u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a related issue, September 17th cover story reads &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/09\/16\/MNQK12R47M.DTL&amp;feed=rss.news\">Adult offenders shielded by SF<\/a>&#8221; (read more here: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/08\/31\/MN1712JHA6.DTL&amp;hw=juvenile+felon+undocumented&amp;sn=002&amp;sc=921\">S.F.&#8217;s sanctuary city story so far<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Ok, the short form, if you&#8217;re an illegal immigrant and comit a felony in San Francisco, don&#8217;t sweat it. Just tell them you&#8217;re under 21 and you&#8217;ll get in under the &#8220;no undocumented juvenile left behind&#8221; program. San Francisco knows how hard it is to be a drug dealer on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0068135\/\">The Streets of San Francisco<\/a>. They give you training with some of the finest juvenile drug offenders in the state in a no-pressure, no-security setting. And give you time to plan your next scam.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Newsome is trying to change this but we want no part in his right-wing plan!<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte and I were walking down the street the other day and saw a sign painted on the sidewalk &#8220;Sanctuary City only for the rich&#8221;. Um, yeah. Whatever. You illegal juvenile felons don&#8217;t know how good you have it here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the September 16th SF Chronicle, Charlotte and I read with horror&#8230; The headline in the paper paper was &#8220;College aid for illegals in jeopardy&#8221;. Online, it&#8217;s &#8220;Undocumented students&#8217; college aid in jeopardy&#8220;. Apparently, the e-paper world likes &#8220;undocumented&#8221; better than &#8220;illegal&#8221;. A state appellate court has put a financial cloud over the future of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2328,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions\/2328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}